17 septembre 2005

Order 'Still Growing Up - Live and Unwrapped' today and be one of the first 500 to receive a free Still Growing Up Tour T shirt of your choice.

This offer applies to Still Growing Up Tour T shirts only - Please make your choice from the shop and email your details(colour and size)to merch@womadshop.com Don't forget to include your name and order reference number.

Still Growing Up- Live and Unwrapped

November 2003 saw the release of Peter Gabriel’s ‘Growing Up Live’ DVD, chronicling his World Tour, which was celebrated for its spectacular theatrics. ‘Still Growing Up Live and Unwrapped’ brings Peter Gabriel together again with the award winning director, Hamish Hamilton, capturing

his performances in all sorts of smaller and more intimate venues around Europe for the Live film. It was an opportunity to perform songs which were not part of the original Growing Up Tour White Ashes, San Jacinto, Games Without Frontiers, Tower, Come Talk To Me, Burn You Up, Biko.

The Unwrapped film explores the world behind the songs, with Anna Gabriel taking the Director’s chair with the collaboration of Hamish Hamilton.

Septembers lunar height is upon us and to mark it's arrival we have pulled another demo from Peter's studio archive.

Having spent most of the month working on the new DVD "Still growing Up: Peter Gabriel Live and Unwrapped" - some versions of which are now available for pre-order in WOMADShop with a free tour T-shirt thrown in - it's been amazing to see how this 1998 demo of The Tower evolved through OVO and The Millennium Dome show into the version performed on the recent tour; and now DVD, so powerful 'That Ate People' should rightly be appended to it's name.

16 septembre 2005

David Daniels revisits his groundbreaking '80s clay-animation video at the annual short-film festival

By Chris Garcia, american-statesman film writerFriday, September 16, 2005

David Daniels lives in the cold, scratchy nether-zone of a grand and awful irony, and it troubles him to no end. This is how he sees it: As a young man, he was an artist whose first major work, the clay-animation video "Buzz Box," put him on the fast track to stardom in the mid-1980s. The 15-minute video — a throbbing, dazzling miasma of imagistic excess — was hailed as a savage, funny and groundbreaking blast at modern media run amok.

Daniels went on to animate four seasons of "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" and design the Peter Gabriel video "Big Time." But he decided to forfeit the sacrifice, the shmoozing and the struggle of the artist's myth for a traditional path, that of husband, father and creator of talking M&Ms.

Daniels indeed created the "M&Ms Guys," that famous pair of humanoid candy drops who wear sneakers and gloves and pitch their namesake edibles in animated M&Ms ads. He and his Portland, Ore.-based production company Bent Image Lab have also produced memorable commercials for Kellogg's, NBC, Nabisco, Pepsi and H-P...

Wallace & Gromit are back - this time battling an evil rabbit beast terrorising their garden. Creator Nick Park tells Stuart Jeffries how Hollywood's millions have helped - and hindered

Friday September 16, 2005The Guardian

There are no such things as marrows in the United States. Americans call them something else. This may seem an insignificant matter to you, but it became very vexing indeed to Nick Park when he was working on his new Wallace & Gromit film with Hollywood money. "You see, in the film, Gromit is growing his own prize marrow for a giant vegetable competition at Lady Toddington's manor house," says Park...

Again,Peter Gabriel's, "Here Comes the Flood" floods my mind. A pregnant song. A prescient song. A song that has warned those with ears to hear about the dire results of a ludibund and flippant attitude toward our effect on the natural world, and its harsh rebuke.

I'm too old to rehash an examination of the lyrics of a song that has been around since the 70s, and which has already been analysed quite enough thank you, which I guess either shows the innocuous ineffectiveness of such an activity, or else that the examiners are perhaps a little farther behind the scenes than they might have wished upon themselves, in more ego-laden moments of their evanescent lives.

Mister Gabriel must have been shaking his head even longer than his monkey (or was that shock? But of course!) as he watches the essobees fasten the hoodwinks ever snugly. More ugly still the nightmares unfurling.

More pregnant and prescient still is Robert Fripp's version of the song, with Gabriel on piano and voice, while Robert Frippertronicizes the sonic atmospheres enveloping it.Fripp wisely includes the words of the Gurdjieff scholar/student and mystic, JG Bennett, who talks about the coming floods in great world cities, due to what is euphomistically called "climate change".